Finding community at law school is vital, particularly while navigating the rigors of legal study. At Stanford Law, a new fellowship is offering both community and exciting scholarly opportunities. The fellowship program brings together a tightly knit cohort of a dozen second and third-year law ...students to spend one or two academic years working on the Rhode Center for the Legal Profession’s core research and policy-making projects. Professors David Freeman Engstrom and Nora Freeman Engstrom have co-directed the Rhode Center since 2021 and created the Civil Justice Fellows program in 2022. “It’s the Center’s jewel in the crown,” David says. “We are creating and nurturing a pipeline of talented young lawyers who care about these important issues.” An overarching goal of the Fellows’ program, says Nora Freeman Engstrom, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, is to foster a sense of collaboration and community among the participating students, while encouraging the students’ long-term commitment to ensuring the legal profession lives up to its highest ideals. Read more here: https://stanford.io/4dks9ef

“There are so many reasons to look forward to joining the SLS community, and the top of that list includes the student body,” said Stanford Law School's newest faculty member E. Tendayi Achiume, an international human rights and migration scholar. We are so excited to welcome her to ...SLS!

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Nature-based solutions can play a significant role in combating climate change by removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; yet, investments in reforestation and other nature-based projects are lagging due, in large part, to inadequate quantification and confirmation of carbon removals ...and other ecosystem benefits that typically flow from nature-based investments—including increased resilience to climate impacts, according to a new report from Stanford Law School’s Law and Policy Lab, the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and the Bezos Earth Fund. SLS Professor and report faculty lead David J. Hayes commented, “Policymakers and investors are looking for proof that nature-based solutions can deliver measurable and verifiable carbon emissions reductions and removals—and they are not getting it...". The “Investing in Nature to Fight Climate Change and Help Communities Thrive” report lays out a game plan for fixing current measurement and monitoring deficiencies for nature-based solutions, building on the White House’s release of its National Strategy to Advance an Integrated U.S. Greenhouse Gas Measurement, Monitoring & Information System. Read more here: https://stanford.io/46qP0CM